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Inner Sunset Community Advocates Inc

Isca's mission is to empower marginalized people to improve the quality of their lives and communities and to create transformation in the san francisco bay area by fostering affordable housing and making grants to qualified 501(c)(3) organizations.

$252k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$370kReligion$275kHousing & Shelter$236kCrime & Legal$130kArts & Culture$115kHealth$100kRecreation & Sports$75kFood & Nutrition$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ON LOK DAY SERVICES$30,000
SEVENTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$27,000
OPENHOUSE$25,000
FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH$25,000
AT THE CROSSROADS$20,000
RAPHAEL HOUSE$20,000
FREEDOM COMMUNITY CLINIC$20,000
GUM MOON WOMEN'S RESIDENCE$20,000
MUJERES UNIDAS & ACTIVAS$20,000
FAITHFUL FOOLS STREET MINISTRY$15,000
KIDS & ART FOUNDATION$10,000
POTRERO HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$10,000
COMMUNITY LIVING CAMPAIGN$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $360k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $25k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $20k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $20k → 10%SELF HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $25k → 10%SELF HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $20k → 10%GUM MOON WOMEN'S RESIDENCE: $20k → 10%ON LOK DAY SERVICES: $30k → 10%ON LOK DAY SERVICES: $25k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $20k → 10%ON LOK DAY SERVICES: $20k → 10%ON LOK DAY SERVICES: $20k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS & ACTIVAS: $20k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $15k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS & ACTIVAS: $20k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $20k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $20k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 21 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
14

Total granted

$1.2M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+40%

Still filing today

95%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CL
    Community Living Campaign
    6× · 2018–2024 · $101k · revenue +180%
  • EB
    EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER
    4× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +57%
  • OL
    ON LOK DAY SERVICES
    4× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • GRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -23%
  • 3S
    3RD STREET YOUTH CENTER AND CLINICgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +66%
  • NC
    New College for Advanced Christian Studies
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +6%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco Inc

The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is dedicated to combating the displacement crisis gripping our city by building the power of working-class tenants of color to take on the real estate industry and win housing justice for all.…

Education
2
Curry Senior Center

To provide services to seniors that promote independent living while maintaining their dignity and self-esteem.

Human Services
3
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc

Our core belief at San Francisco Community Health Center is that everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the highest quality health care. Our mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness and equality.

Health
4
Family Bridges Inc

We empower individuals, families, and seniors to achieve wellness, stability, and independence through culturally-competent care.

—
5
Central City Hospitality House

Hospitality House is a progressive, community-based organization located in San Francisco's Tenderloin, Sixth Street Corridor, and Mid-Market neighborhoods, founded nearly 60 years ago in 1967 by community volunteers during the City's…

—
6
Homeownership San Francisco dba Home Sf

The Organization is a citywide collaborative of housing counseling agencies that helps diverse and underserved households achieve and sustain homeownership in San Francisco.

—
7
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
8
San Francisco Senior and Disability Action Dba Senior & Disability Action

Senior & Disability Action educates and mobilizes seniors and people with disabilities to secure individual rights and social justice. We work together to create a city and world in which seniors and people with disabilities can live well…

Unclassified
9
Homeless Childrens Network

To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other…

Human Services
10
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
11
Community Forward Sf Inc

Community Forward SF's support services create pathways from crisis to long-term stability through our Women's Wellness Pathway, a proven continuum linking a 24/7 drop-in center, shelter, transitional housing, behavioral health care, and…

Health
12
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Self-Help for the Elderly; the most unlike its peers is Womens Division Christian Service Gum Moon Residence Hall. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEVENTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SAN FRANCISCO: $203,900 · OtherSEVENTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SAN F…Eldergivers dba Art With Elders: $70,172 · OtherEldergivers dba Art With EldersPOTRERO HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $39,000 · OtherPOTRERO HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INCSan Francisco Arts Education Project: $45,000 · OtherSan Francisco Arts Education ProjectPeninsula Food Runners Inc: $40,000 · OtherPeninsula Food Runners IncFAITHFUL FOOLS STREET MINISTRY: $35,000 · OtherFAITHFUL FOOLS STREET MINISTRY3RD STREET YOUTH CENTER AND CLINIC: $20,000 · OtherGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: $25,025 · Other+9 more: $85,000 · Other+9 moreON LOK DAY SERVICES: $95,000 · Human ServicesON LOK DAY SERVICESFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $65,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTHAT THE CROSSROADS: $60,000 · Human ServicesAT THE CROSSROADSSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $45,000 · Human ServicesSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLYMujeres Unidas y Activas: $40,000 · Human ServicesMujeres Unidas y ActivasRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCI…Womens Division Christian Service Gum Moon Residence Hall: $20,000 · Human ServicesWomens Division Christian S…EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER: $100,000 · Crime & LegalEAST BAY …Pangea Legal Services: $30,000 · Crime & LegalPangea Le…NON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $67,000 · Housing & ShelterNON-PROFI…Openhouse: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterOpenhouseHAMILTON FAMILIES: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHAMILTON …CHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterCHINATOWN…Community Living Campaign: $100,870 · Civil RightsFreedom for Immigrants: $15,000 · Civil RightsKids & Art Foundation: $40,000 · HealthNIGHT MINISTRY: $22,000 · HealthFREEDOM COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $20,000 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthFAMILY HOUSE INC: $5,000 · HealthCHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · HealthGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $75,000 · Environment
Other$563,097Human Services$360,000Crime & Legal$130,000Housing & Shelter$121,000Civil Rights$115,870Health$112,000Environment$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Living Campaign: $100,870 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetON LOK DAY SERVICES: $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEldergivers dba Art With Elders: $70,172 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $67,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAT THE CROSSROADS: $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Arts Education Project: $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPeninsula Food Runners Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMujeres Unidas y Activas: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKids & Art Foundation: $40,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetPOTRERO HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $39,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFAITHFUL FOOLS STREET MINISTRY: $35,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPangea Legal Services: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: $25,025 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOpenhouse: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNIGHT MINISTRY: $22,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budget3RD STREET YOUTH CENTER AND CLINIC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOM COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWomens Division Christian Service Gum Moon Residence Hall: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAMILTON FAMILIES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew College for Advanced Christian Studies: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFreedom for Immigrants: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDorothy Day House: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Open Hand: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Francisco Fou…McNabb FoundationStupski FoundationUnited Way of the Bay…The James Irvine Foun…Crankstart FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Metta FundTipping Point Communi…Bothin FoundationMarin Community Found…
The San Francisco FoundationCA36.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Stupski Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · The James Irvine Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Metta Fund · Tipping Point Community · Bothin Foundation · Marin Community Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Inner Sunset Community Advocates Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Inner Sunset Community Advocates Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Inner Sunset Community Advocates Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Inner Sunset Community Advocates Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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